Please join Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Joseph Bessie in congratulating our newly tenured and promoted faculty members, and wishing them continued success in their careers. Read the rest of this entry →
Please join us in congratulating our newly tenured and promoted faculty members, and wishing them continued success in their careers. Read the rest of this entry →
David Tack, School of Teaching and Learning, was the keynote speaker and led two breakout sessions last Friday at the Southwest Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs conference. The sessions focused on Tack’s research on creating community within learning environments, and was attended by over 60 teachers and administrators.
Dr. David Tack, STL, was invited to be the closing keynote speaker at the Minnesota Correctional Education Association Conference on April 7 in Bloomington, Minn. His address (“Creating Community Within the Learning Environment”) was delivered to over 160 educators and administrators in the Minnesota juvenile detention system.
Dr. David Tack, STL, presented his research on community building in the classroom setting at the 32nd annual Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs conference in Duluth, Minn.
Dr. David Tack, STL, presented the keynote address at the Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs Regional Winter Workshop a M-State in Detroit Lakes, MN. His conversation was titled “Creating Community from Within the Classroom.”
Dr. David Tack, STL, was recognized by the North Dakota Association of Dance in Drill for being the “Voice of North Dakota Dance” for over 10 years. Read the rest of this entry →
Dr. David Tack, STL, presented with the Detroit Lakes instructional coaches, superintendent, and assistant superintendent of curriculum at the Minnesota School Board Association Leadership Conference on January 16. Read the rest of this entry →
Dr. David Tack, Teaching & Learning, presented his research at the National Association of Multicultural Educators conference in Tucson, Arizona. His study, “A Culturally Just Curriculum for Non-Native Teachers on a Reservation School,” was presented as part of the first day proceedings, and he had the opportunity to discuss publication with the three editors of the journal Multicultural Perspectives.
Save the date for the Leadership Panel, which will be on Wednesday, November 19 from 7-8 p.m. in CMU 101. Read the rest of this entry →
Dr. David Tack, Teaching & Learning, was invited to lead professional development with the DGF elementary teachers in Glyndon. His presentation led the teachers through a simulation in order to better understand the unique circumstances students from various socio-economic backgrounds bring to their school, and ways their classrooms can better meet these needs.
Dr. David Tack, Teaching and Learning, presented his research on school-community relationships on the Red Lake reservation at the 14th annual Community Collaborative Brain Conference in Mahnomen, MN. “The Importance of Schools in Building Stronger Community Relationships” was presented to a group of international teachers, social workers, early child care providers, and a member of the Minnesota Department of Education.
Dr. David Tack, School of Teaching and Learning, spent June 16-20 helping lead professional development with 120 teachers at the “Come Together” conference in the Detroit Lakes public schools. The week was spent on analyzing curriculum to create Essential Learning Outcomes, create formative assessment, and Understanding by Design (on which Dr. Tack presented).
Dr. David Tack, School of Teaching & Learning, published an article in “The Voice,” a publication of The National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers. The April edition features his article “Two ‘Wrongs’ Are More Than Alright: Using and Stealing Cheat Sheets.” This is Tack’s second contribution in four months to this publication.
Dr. David Tack, School of Teaching and Learning, led an hour-long professional development session with the teachers in the Early Education Center. Together they focused on implementing strategies to enhance the co-teaching models that are utilized within the center, as well as discussed instructional strategies that would best facilitate effective learning in these models.
Dr. David Tack, School of Teaching and Learning, published a column in the February edition of “The Voice” for the National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers (a group comprised of announcers ranging from the junior high to the professional levels). His article “Announcing Dance and Drill Competitions” discussed strategies he has learned and used over the past 14 years of being the public address announcer for competitive dance events at both the high school and collegiate levels.
Dr. David Tack, School of Teaching & Learning, published a chapter “Using Visualization and Deep Breathing” in the upcoming book Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn (Peter Lang). This chapter draws upon Tack’s research on strategies for alleviating school-related distress in high school students.
Dr. David Tack, School of Teaching and Learning, conducted a seminar for teachers in the Detroit Lakes Public Schools during their professional development day. His presentation (“Just Take a Couple Breaths” – Identifying and Addressing Anxiety in Your Students, Your Colleagues, and You!) draws upon his research he conducted on his dissertation, as well as from the number of seminars he has led for K-16 students and teachers.
Dr. David Tack was recognized by the National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers (NASPAA) for announcing over 1,000 events in his career. Tack currently is the PA announcer for Dragon football, men’s and women’s basketball. He is in his 21st year as a public address announcer, where he got his start in 1992 as a freshman at MSUM as the announcer for Dragon basketball.
Q: What is one of your favorite hobbies?
A: Oh, well that’s an easy one. I love to golf – if you can call it that – and every summer, we have the Author Open, or the Poet Pro-Am, I guess, with Thom Thammaro and Mark Vinz and Terry Rude, all of the English department, and then me. Although they can kick my butt in poetry, I can hold my own on the course. It’s great fun, and I think it’s really surreal to know that I go home, and I have their books on my shelves. I read them, truly love them and admire what they do as poets. They’re just great, great people. To sit in the golf cart just talking – it’s just the best. I play guitar a lot, so that’s my other one. I’m big into music. My buddy and I play a lot of music together. It’s been awhile since we’ve done live shows, but we still get together and think we’re rock stars. Read the rest of this entry →
